Belief Quote by Anonymous

There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride,…

— Walter Lippmann

They were the triumphant and insolent possessors; they had a hall, and a fire, and food and clothing and money, and so they might…

— Upton Sinclair

Suspicious.- To admit a belief merely because it is a custom - but that means to be dishonest, cowardly, lazy! - And so could…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The few took advantage of the ignorant many. They pretended to have received messages from the Unknown. They stood between the helpless multitude and…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

The figures looked more or less human. And they were engaged in religion. You could tell by the knives (it's not murder if you…

— Terry Pratchett

They were Jesuits," she told me. "That means they believe in God but not in terlet paper. You should have seen their underwear. Disgusting.

— David Sedaris

They were devils incarnate.

— William Shakespeare

Debased men, but they all had something in common: They showed a keen regard for virtue, and tried to dress themselves in that costume.…

— Orson Scott Card

Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?

— Benjamin Franklin

Still, they were two thorns from the same thistle. Their tactics in terrorizing innocent ladies were identical. Their behavior was downright sinful, but what…

— Julie Garwood

There are not anywhere else so many ways of trickery, so many false lights, so many veils, so many guises, so many illusive deceits,…

— Henry Ward Beecher

They were simple, earnest people, those early Victorians, and had not yet learnt the trick of avoiding disturbing thoughts and sights.

— Ford Madox Ford